Jakob Roepke studied at Offenbach University of Arts and Design (D) and at Edinburgh College of Art (UK). His works has been shown at many solo-shows in galleries in e.g. Berlin, Basel, Frankfurt, London, Copenhagen and Glasgow and in group exhibitions among others in Tel Aviv, Dubai, Nijmegen, Cologne, Edinburgh and Basel , on art fairs as Art Amsterdem, Volta6, Basel (CH), artbrussels, Brussels, SWAB art fair, NEXT 08, Chicago, Pulse Miami, Miami, Preview Berlin, art cologne, Cologne, Fresh Paint 09, Tel Aviv. His works are represented in collections as International Collage Center New York , A.G. Rosen , Sir Duncan Mac Laren’s Collection of Symbolist and Surrealist Art, TheWadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford Conneticut and Saxo Collection, DK.
For many years Jakob Roepke has been working on a series of small-sized gouaches, showing animals, human figures and other protagonists facing the hazards of life and every-day on stage-like sets. Materials of this work-process as well as finished paintings will be sent from Berlin to Papua New Guinea, to be worked with and worked on by a local artist. Hopefully a fruitful and surprising correspondence may develop out of leaving familiar pieces of art-work into a completely new context.
